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Main Authors: Bruera, Renzo, Cardona, Robert, Miranda, Eva, Peralta-Salas, Daniel, Salo, Ville
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07288
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author Bruera, Renzo
Cardona, Robert
Miranda, Eva
Peralta-Salas, Daniel
Salo, Ville
author_facet Bruera, Renzo
Cardona, Robert
Miranda, Eva
Peralta-Salas, Daniel
Salo, Ville
contents We explore the relationship between Turing completeness and topological entropy of dynamical systems. We first prove that a natural class of Turing machines that we call "branching Turing machines" (which includes most of the known examples of universal Turing machines) has positive topological entropy. Motivated by the recent construction of Turing complete Euler flows, we deduce that any Turing complete dynamics with a continuous encoding that simulates a universal branching machine is chaotic. On the other hand, we show that, unexpectedly, universal Turing machines with zero topological entropy (and even zero speed) can be constructed, unveiling the independence of chaos and universality at the symbolic level.
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spellingShingle Topological entropy of Turing complete dynamics
Bruera, Renzo
Cardona, Robert
Miranda, Eva
Peralta-Salas, Daniel
Salo, Ville
Dynamical Systems
Computational Complexity
We explore the relationship between Turing completeness and topological entropy of dynamical systems. We first prove that a natural class of Turing machines that we call "branching Turing machines" (which includes most of the known examples of universal Turing machines) has positive topological entropy. Motivated by the recent construction of Turing complete Euler flows, we deduce that any Turing complete dynamics with a continuous encoding that simulates a universal branching machine is chaotic. On the other hand, we show that, unexpectedly, universal Turing machines with zero topological entropy (and even zero speed) can be constructed, unveiling the independence of chaos and universality at the symbolic level.
title Topological entropy of Turing complete dynamics
topic Dynamical Systems
Computational Complexity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07288